Just after midnight Sunday morning, Athens-Clarke police received a call from the father of a 21-year-old woman who said she was walking from downtown to her car with an off-duty police officer from Lilly, Ga.

John Edward Metcalf, 34, of Athens, was charged with public intoxication and urinating in public Saturday afternoon after Athens-Clarke police received a call about a man urinating on the front door of the Walk the Line tattoo parlor on East Broad Street.

The American Heart Association’s Athens office still is seeking individuals and teams to participate in the 2013 Clarke/Oconee Heart Walk being held Thursday at Bishop Park to help raise awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, the first- and fourth-ranked killers, respectively, in the United States.

The Heart Walk is AHA’s major fundraiser each year and enables the organization to fund work aimed at creating better practices for treating heart disease and stroke, as well as raise public awareness and educate at-risk populations.

The William B. Mulherin Foundation for Health & Wellness recently presented Mercy Health Center with a check for $9,200 to begin a Teaching Kitchen to help patients at Mercy learn how to shop for and prepare healthy food in a community environment.

Madison County High School FFA members recently competed in the State Young Farmer Beef Cattle Show in Perry. Senior FFA Member Austin Saye placed second in his steer weight class and Hunter Anderson placed sixth in his heifer class and 10th in 10th-grade showmanship. Olivia Minish also placed 10th in her heifer class.

Foreign exchange students with CCI Greenheart volunteered in the kitchen for Our Daily Bread Aug. 30. CCI Greenheart is an exchange organization with a social initiative to give back to the local community through active volunteerism.

Students earn points through the Greenheart initiative and have the opportunity to win $500 for a service project for their local school and/or their school at home to help introduce the concept of “Connecting People & Planet.”

Monday Sept 30
• Meal Packaging: 9-10 a.m. Volunteers are needed to help package 50 to 100 meals with Campus Kitchen at the Athens Community Council on Aging. No cooking involved. For more information, visit www.ugacampuskitchen.weebly.com.

Students pay attention in Aaron Jongko's class at Whitehead Road Elementary School. Johngko, recently named Clarke County School District's Teacher of the Year, set a brisk pace Friday as he led his class of 23 fourth-graders through division drills.

ATLANTA — After Larry Mainor left the armed forces, he spent years getting high on crack and sleeping in cars, under bridges, behind restaurants and even in the woods. Now, he finally has a roof over his head and his own bed to sleep in.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA is preparing to launch a 3-D printer into space next year, a toaster-sized game changer that greatly reduces the need for astronauts to load up with every tool, spare part or supply they might ever need.

NEW ORLEANS — Top kill. Junk shot. Cofferdam. Top hat. Capping stack. Those terms — obscure industry jargon before BP's massive 2010 oil spill — became familiar buzzwords as the company scrambled to find a way to plug its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum late Sunday, chanting "freedom" and renewing calls for their longtime autocratic president to resign after dozens of protesters were killed in a week of demonstrations sparked by austerity measures.

POTISKUM, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said — the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.

RALEIGH, N.C. — With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work than their counterparts elsewhere.

WASHINGTON — Iran would open its nuclear facilities to international inspectors as part of broad negotiations with the United States that could eventually restore diplomatic relations between the adversaries and those talks have the backing of the nation's supreme leader, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Sunday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Inspectors who will oversee Syria's destruction of its chemical weapons said Sunday their first priority is to help the country scrap its ability to manufacture such arms by a Nov. 1 deadline — using every means possible.

JERUSALEM — Mortified that the world may be warming up to Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking an unpopular message to the White House and the United Nations this week: Don't be fooled by Tehran's new leadership.

WASHINGTON — With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed Sunday to keep using an otherwise routine federal funding bill to try to attack the president's health care law.

ATLANTA - Friday's unsealing of an 18-count indictment against a state senator may have also struck Gov. Nathan Deal as bad news - and not just because the two Republicans have been allied on some issues.
A Fulton County grand jury charged Sen.

This is for four women who are not here.
It is for grandchildren who never existed and retirement celebrations that were never held. It is for Sunday dinners that were never prepared in homes that were never purchased.

The Georgia volleyball team dropped a 3-0 (20-25, 17-25, 12-25) decision to Texas A&M in Southeastern Conference action on Sunday in College Station, Texas.
With the loss, Georgia drops to 11-3 on the year and 1-1 in the SEC.

Senior Lilly Kimbell punched her ticket to the singles qualifying draw at the 2013 Riviera/ITA All-American Championships with a win Sunday afternoon.
"It was a really good match for Lilly," Georgia assistant coach Drake Bernstein said in a release.

The meatgrinder portion of Georgia's schedule - three top-10 teams in the first four games - is now in the past.
The Bulldogs made it the other side of that harrowing Clemson-South Carolina-LSU stretch pretty much right where they started.

HOUSTON - Steven Hauschka kicked a 45-yard field goal in overtime to give the Seattle Seahawks a 23-20 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday and the first 4-0 start in franchise history.
Houston (2-2) failed to score on two possessions in overtime.